[5]
The
first point which I set myself to determine (it is
easy enough to state, but is still all-important) was
what each party desired to establish and then what
means he was likely to adopt to that end. My
method was as follows. I considered what the
prosecutor would say first: his point must either be
admitted or controversial: if admitted, no question
could arise in this connexion.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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